Organizational pre-retirement planning increases stress in middle-aged employees, but programs in pre-retirement education initiated by community colleges in cooperation with local companies can be very successful. (MS)

For over ninety years the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training has been concerned with the rehabilitation of displaced adults and has further extended its priorities in developing manpower for vocational shortages throughout the world. (RK)

Discusses the problems of who will pay the costs of restraining and how the areas of need'' can be discovered and provided for. (SP)

An entirely different approach is needed to manage America's aging work force. Human resource management and acceleration of skill levels are significantly more important as the structure of the economy changes. (SK)

Many postsecondary technical education programs are facing obsolescence and need more than another course or piece of equipment to be effective. Educational institutions must restructure their programs, redesign their laboratories, and retrain their faculty. The business and industrial community is the direct beneficiary of a strong vocational…

The shortage of qualified science and mathematics teachers is expected to increase. Among the remedies are incentive pay (despite unions' reactions against it), increasing funds for teacher training, and retraining and recertification programs that offer financial incentives. (MLF)

Describes a curriculum management approach to training that ties together employee career development, current performance needs, and future business plans in order to provide a coherent planning system for the conduct of industrial training. (LRA)

Describes adult education and community education programs throughout the nation designed to improve attitudes toward education in general and toward schools specifically. (Author/JM)

Although Japan is known to have the earliest mandatory retirement age (age 55) among the industrialized nations, the majority of workers continue to work beyond that age. Two systems allow those retired from their career jobs to continue to work: the reemployment system and the extension-of-employment system. (Author)

The formal retraining of experienced teachers from one field or level of specialization to another is one response to problems created by changing job markets within the teaching profession. (JD)

Discusses a program developed to assist displaced workers in a small town in Arkansas after a uniform-manufacturing company shut down and moved to Mexico, leaving nearly 200 unskilled workers unemployed. Reports that almost 100 of the workers became community college students through a cooperative program that involved the schools, the state, the…

A discussion of the impact of modern biotechnological developments on pharmaceutical education looks at undergraduate and graduate curricula separately, and focuses on the impact on needs for new faculty and faculty retraining. Specific faculty and curriculum recommendations are made. (MSE)

Identifies the economic conditions mandating a strong role for community colleges in economic development. Describes Belmont Technical College's (OH) efforts to revitalize the local economy by expanding its mining technology program, redeveloping abandoned land, and retraining displaced steel workers. Urges colleges to explore nontraditional…

Discusses the development and production of TOPIC (Training for Oral Proficiency Interviewing Competence), an interactive video refresher training program that teaches interviewing and evaluation skills to German oral proficiency testers. The program can be used as a prototype for the development of refresher training programs in other languages.…

Discusses the changing need for adult education in Finland. Emphasizes that retraining is becoming adult education's main priority, but that general education will continue to be important and thus should continue to be developed. (CH)